Sublime

The God of Calvinism demanded of his believers not single good works, but a life of good works combined into a unified system.

In 1917, the sociologist Max Weber argued that “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world

Thus election could not be proved by theological learning at all.111 Hence Pietism, with a deep distrust of the Church of the theologians,112 to which—this is characteristic of it—it still belonged officially, began to gather the adherents of the praxis pietatis in conventicles removed from the world.